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Apologies for the missing transmission last weekend on 9400 kHz. I hope the Saturday’s 1400 UTC broadcast is heard this without mishap. During the broadcasts that were heard, our experiment with simultaneous English and Spanish text, using side-by-side MFSK32 streams, worked well. The dual audio caused mixing products that made the signal look somewhat messy on spectrum displays, but this …

Slow Scan Radio has been transmitting two streams of text simultaneously. We have tried this a few times on VOA/Shortwave Radiogram, and will try it again this weekend. Near the end the half hour will be a simultaneous transmission of a news item from swissinfo.ch in two languages, both in MFSK32, with the English version centered on 1500 Hz and …

Media Broadcast from Nauen, Germany will conduct special DRM transmissions directed to the DRM General Assembly Meeting in Spain. March 26 and 27 10-11 UTC 13670 kHz with 100 kW at 210 degrees. Program will be The Mighty KBC, might include Journaline data as well.

Last week’s Shortwave Radiogram was very colorful, except for the two gray-scale (also known as grey-scale) images, which were very “blackandwhiteful”. See one example below and many more at https://twitter.com/swradiogram or @SWRadiogram on Twitter. However, apologies for the malfunction last weekend on 9400 kHz. It sounded like CW, but I don’t think it was. The problem was resolved before the …

Digital Radio Mondiale’s 2019 General Assembly will take place March 26–27 at the Palma Bellver Bay Meliá Hotel in Mallorca, Spain. Under the theme “Digital Radio Mondiale Drives Forward,” the event will provide the opportunity for the consortium to review the past year and set the strategy and working plan for next year. It will also give DRM members and …

UZBEKISTAN 15640 DRM test March 20. RRTM RED Telecom Tashkent Uzbekistan bcast center will do a DRM test on Wednesday March 20th from 1430-1500 UT on 15640 kHz. Depending upon the result they may switch the frequency of the planned test on March 26th to a frequency in the 17 MHz range. (via Hans Johnson-FL-USA, dxld March 19) UZBEKISTAN 15640 …

RNZI’s DRM schedule is now: 1651-1750 5975 Sun-Fri 1751-1850 7330 Sun-Sat 1851-1958 9780 Sun-Fri Notice that they are on every day now from 1751-1850 and that they no longer have DRM 1951-2050, which had been on 11690 kHz. @drmdigitalradio

Media Broadcast from Nauen, Germany will conduct special @drmdigitalradio transmissions directed to the DRM General Assembly Meeting. Mar 26 and 27 10-11 UTC 13670 kHz with 50 or 100 kW at 210 degrees. Program will be The Mighty KBC, might include Journaline data as well.

Now @drmdigitalradio tests from Woofferton are planned for march 26th and 27th: 1200-1300 UTC 11780 kHz 1500-1600 UTC 11790 kHz Programming will be @bbcworldservice . This is for the General Assembly meeting of the DRM Consortium.